‘Kamikaze drone’ falls in Moscow suburbs loaded with ’40lb of explosives’
While the US government had asked Ukrainian leaders to call off a rumoured drone attack on Moscow, scattered reports are coming in of weaponised drones being found at sites in and around the Russian capital.
Russian news sources say a Ukrainian UJ-22 drone packed with explosives was found near the Bogorodsky district, about 19 miles east of central Moscow, Russian news agency TASS reported:”In the Bogorodsky district, not far from the SNT Zarya, a fallen drone filled with explosives was found
“According to [a source], the aircraft was discovered the day before, it was broken in half. Currently, the drone was taken for examination, during which those who launched it and where it flew to will be established.”
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Other sources put the find nearer to Noginsk, which is more like 30 miles east of the capital.
It’s not clear whether the two reports are sightings of separate drones, or simply confused testimony from different witnesses.
Certainly another, similar, bomb-drone was discovered near the village of Gubastovo, some 62 miles from Moscow in February – close to the period of the planned Ukrainian attack.
Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, issued a statement at the time claiming that the drone was likely targeting a "civil infrastructure facility.”
There are several gas pipelines in the area belonging to Russian energy diet Gazprom.
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The UJ-22 is made by the Ukrainian company UKRJET. Powered by a small gas engine, the drone has maximum range of just under 500 miles – meaning it could reach the Russian capital from a launch site near the Russian-Ukrainian border.
In the past, UKRJET has shown off various payloads for the UJ-22, including racks that can drop mortar rounds or RPG missiles onto a target, and its 44lb payload could potentially be used to deliver one massive explosive charge.
Reports on Telegram from Russian news outlet Baza say that several other drones have been found in the Moscow area.
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“The Belgorod region was massively attacked by drones,” Baza reported. “Only yesterday, four UAVs flew into the region.”
“One of them, flying over the village of Mur, 500 metres from the border, was [brought down] by means of electronic warfare. The second drone, seen on the outskirts of the village of Sereda, was also shot down – when it fell, the ammunition detonated and the drone exploded.”
The US had reportedly told Ukraine not to make attacks open Russian soil – largely because the possibility that the use of NATO-supplied weapons could potentially spark a global conflict.
With the UJ22 reportedly having been loaded with around 40lb of Canadian-supplied explosives, that possibility is becoming more real.
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